“When will you stop running?” was a question I was asked a lot when I was first pregnant, and I didn’t have an answer. I knew I would run as long as I felt comfortable, and safe. So, I didn’t know that the Abbey Dash would be my last pregnant race at the time I…

Training in winter means you need the best reflective running gear you can find. Here in the UK, it’s dark morning and evening from October through to springtime. Few people have the luxury of regular daytime running so if you want to get the miles in, you need to get the gear that will keep…

In recent months, I’ve been going through a period of intense busy-ness: starting a demanding new job in a new city, buying a new flat in a different area altogether (logic never was my strong point!), living between two different places, often on the road, driving hundreds of miles each month, seemingly always packing – and…

A friend described the three trimesters in order as ‘dreary, cheery and weary’, and I certainly found the middle one a lot happier than the first (though I’m still feeling great in the third too). Now that I’m most definitely into my third and final stretch, I thought I’d give a little round up of…

A day is a dog year on the internet. So it feels like a million years since our recent Light Night Leeds Art Run, when actually it was only a couple of weeks ago. We’ve been a bit distracted doing hynobirthing classes, running one of the luscious Hardmoors races on the North Yorkshire Moors and…

“It’s going to be super muddy tomorrow – you do have trail shoes, don’t you?” said Mum, the night before our Women’s Running 10K race, a trail race that we’ve have been ambassadors for for about six months. Hmm. Well, yes, I did HAVE them, in the sense that I own trail shoes. Several pairs…

“Can you get enough protein if you don’t eat meat?” Ask any vegan or vegetarian and they’ll tell you they hear the protein question lots. Like, really lots. We’re pleased to tell you that it’s really not that hard. Check out this post from registered (and plant-based) nutritionist, Laura Thomas, Are You Getting Enough Protein? The answer is…

All of a sudden, as I began my second trimester of pregnancy, my running started to get much faster and feel easier than it had for years. The advice, quite rightly, is to not focus on PBs while pregnant, and just enjoy being active for as long as you can. But I’ve suddenly found myself…

My first trimester lasted about a year. The calendar said it was 13 weeks, but my body felt each week like a season. I was super thrilled to be pregnant, and cautiously excited about the baby, but massively thrown off my equilibrium and days seemed to stretch into weeks. A lot was to do with…